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OK, first of all you said you put a blank DvD in the drive. Make sure your dell has a DvD writer. Look on the drawer of the drive and see does it say DvDrw or DvDROM. It has to say Rw for rewritable and not ROM for Read Only Media. Maybe you have a Combo Drive that is DvDrom and CDrw which means it will read both DvD's and Cd's but in can only Write CD's.

If in fact you do have a DvD writer make sure you're not trying to put a Blue Ray disc in the drive.

Lastly, remove the DvD from the drive. Click Start/My Computer. Notice what it brings up as to your DvD Drive. Does it Say DvDrw or just plain ole DvD. DvD means it will only read a DvD.

An ISO image is an archive file (also known as a disk image) of an optical disc in a definite format. An ISO image includes all the data of files contained on the archived CD/DVD, or any other disc format. They are stored in an uncompressed format. In addition to data of the files it also contains all the file system metadata, including boot code, structures, and attributes.

Launch the Copy DVD to ISO Mac program and it will remind you to insert your DVD, Then you choose the DVD-Video that you want to copy in the pop-up folder.Step2: Select the target

You can select to copy a new DVD disc or copy to your hard disk on your Mac. Click "Start" button after finishing selecting. It can burn DVD-Video disc and save the target as DVD Folder or Image(.iso).

Step 3: Start the Mac DVD Copy to ISO

After all things done, click the "Start" button to start to Copy DVD to ISO Mac.Step 4: Copy finished

After the copy is done, a window will appear to inform you that the copy is finished. Click "Finish" to close the window and end the Copy DVD to ISO for Mac.

Tips of Copy DVD to ISO for Mac:

After choosing to copy a new DVD disc or hard disk on your Mac, you can do some settings, for example the DVD Name for the new blank disc or hard disk, select the burner if your have more than one and select the burning speed and copies

This step-by-step tutorial will show you how to use Copy DVD for Mac to backup DVD on your Mac (tiger and leopard). With DVD Copy for mac iSkysoft, you can even copy your DVD movies and remove their protections with just a few clicks.

Copy DVD Mac allows you to copy DVD to a folder on your hard disc or directly burn DVD to a new DVD disc.

In the 'Select DVD Copy Method' field, click to select a method to output the selected DVD movie:

If you want to output your DVD movie to a folder on your hard disc, you can select the 'Output DVD Folder' option, and specify a directory to save the copied DVD movie.

If you want to directly burn your DVD movie to a new DVD disc, you can just select the DVD ROM where you have inserted a blank DVD disc.

Step 3: Program Settings

Set Buffer Directory: Specify a directory on your hard disc as the buffer directory to store the temporary files generated during the conversion. We recommend that you select a folder on a hard disc that has relatively big free space.

Select Language: Select an interface language for the program. The currently available languages are English and Simplified Chinese.

Step 4: Start copying

Note: If you are copying a DVD disc from your DVD ROM to a new DVD disc, DVD Copy for Mac iSkysoft will ask you to insert a blank DVD disc when the program gets ready to burn. Then you can just take the original DVD disc out and insert a blank DVD disc.

For user who doesn’t want to waste a DVD disc to burn the ISO to physical media, and does not have WinPE (Windows PE) startup disc, here’s a workaround method to install Windows Vista and Windows 7 into physical computer’s hard disk drive or partition (volume) directly with ISO without writing or burning to disc. The without-disc installation method is useful especially during beta and RC period of new operating system in the making, where the new build and new versionis launching and publishing every now and then. This tutorial guide assumes that the new Windows 7 or Windows Vista will be installed and replaced the original existing operating system currently installed. The instructions can be modified slightly (mainly on hard disk partition used) to fit into need of readers who want to have a dual-boot, multi-boot, or simply just to upgrade install to new OS.

1. Install a virtual CD/DVD drive on existing Windows operating system.2. Mount the Windows Vista or Windows 7 installation DVD ISO image using the virtual drive.3. Copy all files inside the virtual CD/DVD drive mounted with the ISO into any folder on any partition or hard disk drive not going to be used to install the Windows OS. For example, copy into E:\Windows7.4. Copy the bootmgr and boot folders nested inside the copied folder (i.e. \Windows7) to root directory of system boot drive, typically C:\.

Note: For Windows Vista, users may need to use this step: Copy the bootmgr folder from E:\Windows7 to C:\ root directory, copy E:\Windows7\boot\boot.sdi file to same folder in C:\boot folder, and then copy bootsect.exe from the E:\Windows7\boot\ folder to C:\ drive.

Note: boot folder in system boot drive is hidden system folder.5. Create a new folder named sources under the C:\ root folder.6. Copy the boot.win file inside \Windows7\sources folder to the source folder created in the system boot drive, normally C:\.7. Open a command prompt as administrator.8. Run the following command (change the C to your drive path letter if applicable):

C:\boot\bootsect.exe /nt60 C:

For Windows Vista users who copied bootsect.exe to C:\ root folder, use the following command instead:

C:\bootsect.exe /nt60 C:

A successful message is the command completes successfully.9. Change the name or label of the boot system partition local disk to BDCP or any name you prefer that easier to remember and type (in DOS command promot, use label command).10. Restart the computer.11. After booting up, the system will start the corresponding Windows installation process. Select the applicable language to install, time and currency format (regional settings locale) and keyboard or input method in the installation wizard dialog.12. On the next screen, user will be presented with option to Install Windows. DO NOT press on Install Windows button, instead, click on Repair My Computer link on the bottom left corner.13. In the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) System Recovery Options dialog window, click on Command Prompt to open a DOS Prompt window.14. Run the format command to format the primary hard disk or partition to clean state:

format c: /q

Note: /q switch, which perform quick format can be omitted to full format. And if existing hard disk partition is of FAT32 filesystem format, use format c: /q /fs:ntfs to convert the file system to NTFS while formatting. Before formatting begins, the command may prompt for hard disk drive or partition label name, if so, enter accordingly (i.e. BDCP).15. After format completed, start the Windows Vista or Windows 7 installation process again by manually running the setup.exe located in the copied. Note that the setup.exe is not the one located on boot system drive which copied at later step, as the boot drive has been formatted. For example:

E:\Windows7\sources\setup.exe16. Continue with installation procedures by following on-screen instructions as per normal practice.

Is the drive you are using a DVD writer or only a DVD reader? The drive that writes to RW disks is labeled DVD/RW or DVD Recordable.These are the only drive types that will read and write a DVD/RW disc.

Ok here ya go burn a DVD in Vista:
Insert blank disc
Window automatcally comes up click "Burn Files to Disc"
Type a name for the disc
Use Live Disc Format
Click Next--takes a minute to format
After formatting a special disc burning window opens waiting for files; drag them over and your done

You can only copy files to a blank disk by using programs like NERO or by using a re-writeable disk like DVD-RW which you can format and use it like a hard drive. You need also burner not an ordinary DVD or CD player.

if you are trying to burn movies that you have previously burned ,all you need to do is, use the copy function in you burning software ,ie
copy from dvd drive "D" to dvd drive "E" , or if you only have one drive
copy from dvd drive "D" to "D" and the program will tell you when to replace the dvd disc with a blank one,so it can write to it.
replace the drive letter in quotation marks with your actual drive letter,